Arabic vocabulary
اِطَّلَعَperuse in Arabic
اِطَّلَعَ is how you say “peruse” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَلَوْ قُلتُ إِنِّي اِطَّلَعْتُ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ مُجَلَّدًا، كَانَ أَكْثَرُ،
And if I said: 'Indeed I have perused twenty thousand volumes,' it would be more.
اِطَّلَعْتُ — I perused. A past-tense verb with the -tu 'I' ending, built on an internally augmented pattern that gives a sense of looking-into or perusing. The augmented shape is what colours the bare root with that deliberate, thorough nuance. The -tu fixes the speaker as the one who did it.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →
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